Find out how your mental age compares to your chronological age: IQ Test
Binet was a French psychologist who graduated from law school in 1878. He became the “Commissioner of the Retarded” and started researching children in France to separate the normal children from the abnormal children. In 1903 he published his knowledge in Experimental Studies of Intelligence.
Soon after that Binet decided there needed to be a test to measure intelligence, so he worked with Simon in 1905 to create a test to find the mental ages of individual. Together they created the Binet-Simon inelegancy test. To create the test Binet and Simon studied children in their natural setting to discover what was “normal” at each age. This was the first ever test created to decide if students were falling behind. In 1908 Binet and Simon made a second edition to add and take away needed items and to include age levels from thee to thirteen.
This test gave individuals a mental age after completing a series of mind tasks. The persons’ mental age was not affected by their chronological age. If a child preformed at a mental age of 6 they were given a mental age of 6 regardless of their actual age. If their mental age was the same as their actual age the child was average. If their mental age was higher than their actual age they were considered mentally advanced. If their mental age was below their actual age they were considered retarded. Binet died in 1911 right before the next edition of his test was complete.
Binet-Simon Test
"Le Regard"
Prehension Provoked by a Tactile Stimulus
Prehension Provoked by a Visual Perception
Recognition of Food
Quest of Food Complicated by a Slight Mechanical Difficulty
Execution of Simple Commands and Imitation of Simple Gestures
Verbal Knowledge of Objects
Verbal Knowledge of Pictures
Naming of Designated Objects
Immediate Comparison of Two Lines of Unequal Lengths
Repetition of Three Figures
Comparison of Two Weights
Suggestibility
Verbal Definition of Known Objects
Repetition of Sentences of Fifteen Words
Comparison of Known Objects from Memory
Exercise of Memory on Pictures
Drawing a Design from Memory
Immediate Repetition of Figures
Resemblances of Several Known Objects Given from Memory
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Binet was a French psychologist who graduated from law school in 1878. He became the “Commissioner of the Retarded” and started researching children in France to separate the normal children from the abnormal children. In 1903 he published his knowledge in Experimental Studies of Intelligence.
Soon after that Binet decided there needed to be a test to measure intelligence, so he worked with Simon in 1905 to create a test to find the mental ages of individual. Together they created the Binet-Simon inelegancy test. To create the test Binet and Simon studied children in their natural setting to discover what was “normal” at each age. This was the first ever test created to decide if students were falling behind. In 1908 Binet and Simon made a second edition to add and take away needed items and to include age levels from thee to thirteen.
This test gave individuals a mental age after completing a series of mind tasks. The persons’ mental age was not affected by their chronological age. If a child preformed at a mental age of 6 they were given a mental age of 6 regardless of their actual age. If their mental age was the same as their actual age the child was average. If their mental age was higher than their actual age they were considered mentally advanced. If their mental age was below their actual age they were considered retarded.
Binet died in 1911 right before the next edition of his test was complete.
Binet-Simon Test